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SECURITY & PRIVACY

Easy, cost effective, and a notch above the rest

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WHY DO YOU NEED A SECURE ROUTER?

To fend off hackers and protect yourself from "Surveillance Capitalism".

You've probably heard a lot about hackers stealing your personal information,
but what's more prevalent is big tech collecting and scraping your personal data
sneakily and unilaterally. Sometimes with your "consent" - buried in the terms
and conditions, and sometimes without asking for your consent at all. Harvard
Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff called this "Surveillance Capitalism".

Your personal data is collected when you surf the web, use apps, stream video on
your Smart TV, even when you exercise and sleep. The “Internet of things” will
connect and surveil just about anything imaginable.

It's harder and harder to find a router that doesn't ask you to sign up for an
online account and use their app for management. However, you should not need an
Internet connection to manage your router. After all, you should still be able
to stream a movie from your local network and print to a local printer when the
Internet is down. But why is this happening? The router vendors are jumping on
the surveillance bandwagon.

Don't make your router part of a spying apparatus. Make it your first line of
defense against hackers, and Surveillance Capitalism.


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VLAN, MADE EASY FOR THE NOVICE

What’s the best way to create a separate network for your smart home devices
like many security experts and the FBI have recommended?

The answer is VLANs. A VLAN (short for Virtual LAN) lets you assign the devices
in your home into different groups both for better security and performance. For
example, a VLAN group can separate WiFi connected webcams and doorbells from the
rest of your network. Should there be a security vulnerability in the webcam or
doorbell, it cannot be exploited to attack your other devices. pcWRT comes with
five VLANs pre-defined and ready to go.

Most routers do not offer VLAN functionality. And on the few that do support
VLAN, it's hard for the average user to set up. On the pcWRT, we try to make it
as easy as possible. We think we've done a pretty good job at it. But please
take a look at our demo and let us know!


VPN

No security focused router is complete without support for VPN. The pcWRT router
comes with plenty of options to cover a wide range of VPN usage scenarios.

It supports three VPN protocols: WireGuard, IPsec IKEv2 and OpenVPN. Runs both
as VPN client and VPN server.

In VPN client mode, you can choose to tunnel everything through the VPN
connection or selected networks through the VPN connection. With the latter, you
can split your traffic between the VPN connection and your ISP connection, and
switching VPN on and off is as simple as connecting to a different WiFi SSID.
Router configuration guarantees that there's no DNS leak or WebRTC leak. Kill
switch is no longer needed because connectivity will be automatically cutoff
when the VPN connection is down.

In VPN server mode, you can mark selected users as guests. These users will have
access to the Internet through your VPN server but no access to your internal
network. If you have VLAN configured on the router, you can also select which
VLANs your VPN users will have access to.

With the pcWRT router builtin VPN functionalities, it is easy to achieve
advanced configurations such as site-to-site VPN and sharing streaming accounts
between two houses.

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ACCESS CONTROL

Create different filtering profiles for different groups of devices. Set
flexible filtering policies with your choice of DNS filters (OpenDNS,
CleanBrowsing, Cloudflare, NextDNS etc.) and local black/white lists. And, just
a notch above your ordinary DNS filters, pcWRT Access Control cannot be bypassed
with Private DNS (e.g., DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS).

Pause the Internet, enable safe search for multiple search engines with a single
click. Enforce YouTube Restricted or Moderate Restricted mode for selected
profiles.

Block your Smart TV (or any other IoT device) from spying on you with a profile
in white listing filtering mode.

Schedule Internet access with one or multiple calendars by profile and domains.

Highly configurable local black and white lists. You can block by domain names
or partial domain names, protocols, ports or port ranges, IP addresses or IP
address ranges. You can even enter regular expressions if you so prefer.


MONITORING

Your computers, smart phones, Smart TVs, security cameras, thermostats, digital
assistants, baby monitors and other connected devices all send and receive data
from the Internet. But do you know where the data is going? How much data is
sent and received?

The pcWRT router provides insights to these questions through the Internet
access logs and the Bandwidth Monitor.

If you're worried about children getting on wrong websites or spending too much
time on YouTube or social media, Internet logs and Bandwidth Monitor are your
friends. These logs cannot be wiped out by deleting browsing history and cannot
be hidden by using incognito mode.

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BLOCK ADS, BUT NEVER MISS A DEAL

There are two sides to ad blocking. On the visible side, you block annoying and
intrusive ads from displaying. On the invisible side, you stop the trackers from
following you around. Ever wonder how some adverts follow you from Ebay to
Amazon to Facebook? That's the trackers at work. As you'd expect, trackers,
while invisible, are more detrimental to your privacy.

Browser plugins can block ads while you are using a browser, but they can't
block ads in your apps. Nor can they stop your Smart TV from spying on you.

Tech savvy users set up a pi-hole box on their home networks for network-wide ad
and tracker blocking. But such a setup is out of reach for the average home
user.

On the pcWRT router, you can enable network-wide ad and tracker blocking with a
single click.

What's unique about pcWRT is, you can also pause ad blocking with a single
click. So when you see a good deal and want to follow up, just click the Pause
button.


ENCRYPTED DNS QUERIES

DNS over HTTPS encrypts your DNS queries, therefore, provides another layer of
protection for your security and privacy. It prevents man-in-the-middle attacks
and hides your DNS queries from ISPs and mobile carriers. Since Internet
providers collect "staggering" amounts of data, enabling DNS over HTTPS on your
router will go a long way in protecting your privacy.

The pcWRT router is integrated with all major DNS over HTTPS services. You
simply enable DNS over HTTPS and select the service you want to use.

To provide ultimate configurability, the router also allows you to enter your
own custom DNS over HTTPS service. For example, you can configure the router to
use your personal DNS over HTTPS URLs for NextDNS.


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CONTROL ALL HOME DEVICES FROM THE ROUTER

Since all devices on the home network go through the router in order to connect
to the Internet, the router is the best place for parental control filtering. In
contrast to parental control software, which you have to install and configure
on each and every device, you only need to set up parental control once on the
router and it controls all devices on your home network.

With pcWRT, parental control is built in the firmware, so there's no software to
install. Simply hookup and configure. And because all the control and filtering
is done at the router, there's no performance degradation on your computer or
other types of computing device you might use.

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CONTENT FILTERING WITH DNS

OpenDNS pioneered the method of content filtering with DNS service. To use
OpenDNS as your content filter, simply choose "OpenDNS Family Shield" from the
DNS Servers dropdown in the Parental Control page.

Alternatively, you can use Norton ConnectSafe DNS service instead if you prefer.
Simply choose Norton ConnectSafe from the DNS Servers dropdown.

The good thing is, both OpenDNS and Norton ConnectSafe are available for free.

Furthermore, pcWRT allows you to override DNS filtering with black and white
lists you define. And there's no limit on the number of entries in either list.

Other DNS services are supported through manual configuration.

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MAKE SEARCH SAFE

Undesirable content may creep up during search. That's why Google offers the
SafeSearch option to filter out search results that are not appropriate for
children.

However, if you ever tried to set up and lock SafeSearch for your children, you
know how tedious it can be. Not only you have to do it for each device, but also
for each browser on each device. Not only that, your SafeSearch locks are easily
bypassed by opening an incognito window.

With pcWRT, you only need to tick the "Safe search" checkbox. And it's enabled
and locked for all devices, all browsers, and no bypass with incognito window.

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SET THE LIMITS

Many parents want their children to spend less time on social networking, gaming
or video sites. And maybe spend more time on schoolwork.

With pcWRT, you can create different schedules for different web sites. Simply
create a calendar, then add domain names to the calendar. For example, you might
want to create a "Social Network" calendar to limit access to certain times
during the day, then add facebook, twitter, instagram and snapchat into it.

You can make changes to any calendar at any time, and the changes take effect
immediately after you save them.

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NO MORE LOST SLEEP

Did you ever worry that while you are sleeping, the kids are still online
waiting for the conclusion of a absorbing episode? Or trying to win a final
victory in a game?

Did it ever happen that little Johnny is having a test today in school, but he
didn't sleep much last night because he can't quit chatting with friends on
snapchat?

The Internet needs sleep too. With pcWRT, you can put it to sleep for the kids
only, while you still have the privilege to do whatever you want. Unfair? Well,
that's only an option.

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